Green Economy

The human-induced climate change and the continuing scarcity of natural resources have demonstrated the boundaries of the contemporary carbon-dioxide dependent economy. As a potential solution approach politics and science are proposing the Green Economy. Such a de-carbonation of the economy should support future economic activity that should minimize environmental risks and moreover consider the resource scarcity. In the initial concept of the United Nations, a new ecological economy serves for the superior goal of human-wellbeing and social justice. This is the point that SÜDWIND is considering, such that Green Economy really leads to benefits for all.

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The financing instrument of green bonds presented in this study could be an in-novative instrument for channelling private investment into sustainable projects. The question still to be answered is whether green bonds as they now stand can do the job.